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Michael Horder

Abandoning Age-Tracking - Unwrapping the Gifted - Education Week Teacher - 3 views

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Track students by learning readiness rather than age.

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  • A very small but growing number of school districts around the country are converting to the educational practice of grouping students by readiness (or ability or skill or mastery, depending on how you want to describe it) rather than by age.
Benjamin Caulder

Duncan, Bennett: NCLB caused standards to lower - CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs - 1 views

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standardized tests NCLB

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    • Benjamin Caulder
      Benjamin Caulder on 17 Nov 10
       
      This quote right here needs to be on every teacher's mirror for them to stare at as they get ready for their day: "This is the civil rights issue of our generation. There is also and economic imperative." I could agree more.
    • Ashley Muniz
      Ashley Muniz on 17 Nov 10
       
      In my opinion, the effects of NCLB are detrimental to student learning and success which I agree makes it a civil rights issue. I don't think it is fair that all students in a school must suffer because their school does not meet the required test scores. I think NCLB is good in theory but not in practice
    • Ryan Williams
      Ryan Williams on 19 Nov 10
       
      The NCLB is just horrible, we can see this just by reviewing the test scores of the students. I just don't see how anything good came out of this for both students and teachers. The students are failing more and who gets blamed for the low test scores?
Evonne Villagomez

Are Students Coddled? Schools Get Rid of 'F's - ABC News - 5 views

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    • Jennifer Flores
      Jennifer Flores on 19 Nov 10
       
      Wow! This article blew my mind. I cannot believe that schools would actually go that low. How can they even think about getting rid of F's to help the kids. This is exactly the opposite of what kids really need. I truly believe students receive the grades that they deserve. With hard work comes good grades and with poor work comes poor grades.
  • At one Boston area middle school, a policy known as "Zeros Aren't Permitted" gives students who do not complete their homework on time an opportunity during school hours to finish so that they do not fail the assignment.
    • Evonne Villagomez
      Evonne Villagomez on 19 Nov 10
       
      This is absolutely irritating! Why should these kids, who didn't care to do the assignment in the first place be offered a second chance? I think this is just cause for enabling lazy students. Kids will just assume that 'eh who cares I'll still get the chance to make up the work so I don't have to do it tonight'. It's ridiculous and unfair for those students who are being model students.
  • Kyle Dodson on 18 Nov 10
     
    This article is nothing but angering to me. More and more public schools are ditching the letter grade of "F" for a more friendly rejection grade, relying on an "I" for incomplete or an "H" for held.
  • Michael Horder on 18 Nov 10
     
    This is just stupid. If a child earns and F then that is what they should get. I've heard about this before and I can't believe it. Let's just get rid of A's as well. We can go "credit/no credit" so everyone can feel good about themselves. I see the movie "Idocracy" looming in our future if we make these kind of decisions. That is scary.
  • Jacob Eckrich on 19 Nov 10
     
    The biggest problem with this, is it sets students up for failure later on in life. Part of education is also life application and readiness. If a student who performs badly never "fails" then said student will have a skewes perception of how life works, that will have devestating effects later on lin life.
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